The Round Rock, Texas-based company announced the Emerging Solutions Ecosystem partnership programme at the OpenStack Design Summit in San Francisco on Monday. The scheme sees Dell pair its OpenStack and Hadoop-base technologies with software modules and components from other companies to broaden the capabilities of its products without having to invest in research and development.

Initially, enStratus has worked with Dell to produce an OpenStack reference architecture that combines the open source infrastructure-as-a-service technology with enStratus’s cloud monitoring and management software.

Dell announces Emerging Solutions Ecosystem cloud partnershipCloud Pro – ‎Apr 16, 2012‎
EnStratus will offer its cloud infrastructure management solution to the program. With the deal, enStratus will be used byDell to deliver applications with consistent governance and automation as well as infrastructure automation, …